Charged

AUGUST 3, 2021

generation liquid electrolytes, lithium-sulfur and lithium-air battery cells, high power density inverters and energy-efficient mobility systems technologies. The full list of the projects describes the research goals and lists the federal funding amounts. Research areas include next?generation

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Lithium Fossil fuels Transportation Automotive 112

Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

Increased investment in bus travel across England is "essential" to driving the economic recovery from Covid-19, boosting community connectivity and slashing transport emissions, fresh research published today by Greener Journeys argues. Moreover, every £1 invested in bus travel would generate £4.48

Investment 69

Investment Transportation Carbon-negative Pollution 69

Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 19, 2023

“With transportation emissions responsible for a quarter of Canada’s carbon pollution, and personal vehicles making up around half of that, EVs are vital for fighting climate change and protecting the health of Canadians. More than 15,300 premature deaths each year in Canada are linked to air pollution.

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Electric vehicle Electricity Health Pollution 130

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Also of interest is new debt financing for 80 microgrids in India and a successful Series A for Silicon Anode Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, aiming to bolster the market in Europe. Have you read: Italgas launches innovation drive in US #COP26 – Gresham House chief: ESG critical to investment processes.

Solar Energy Monitor 95

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 95

Renewable Energy World

APRIL 2, 2021

For every car on our roads to be zero emission by 2050, just under double the current total annual world cobalt production, 75% of the world’s lithium production and at least 50% of the world’s copper production would be required. The mining process also causes terrible pollution in local rivers. Lithium mining. Cobalt mining.

Energy Monitor 115

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Electricity 115

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

The new 18-tonne and 26-tonne trucks will be powered by 100% recyclable lithium-ion batteries, rather than diesel, and will help with the continued reduction of air pollution in the City. Air pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health with up to 36,000 people dying prematurely every year in the UK. “We

Electricity 130

Electricity Waste Waste Recycling 130

Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a leading nonprofit investor in climate technology for deep community impact, introduced its latest cohort, bringing its total amount of investments to $79M. These 15 climate companies will join an existing portfolio of more than 150 investments. invested in Cohort 12, $7.2M Of the $12.5M

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Soil Recycling Recycling Investment 111

Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Other drivers include the rising use of energy storage systems based on lithium-ion batteries and use of grid energy storage solutions. Additional drivers include the modernisation of the grid, represented by novel technologies such as smart grids where batteries aid in the capabilities of such technology. billion by 2031.

Demand 98

Demand Batteries Power grid Lithium 98

R-Squared Energy

JULY 2, 2020

The world is in transition between a lead-acid battery past, and a future in which lithium-ion batteries are poised to supplant lead-acid batteries and to displace increasing volumes of transportation fuels. Lead-Acid Versus Lithium-Ion. Exide’s struggles will likely benefit the lithium-ion sector.

Batteries 60

Batteries Lithium Technology Demand 60

Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

Burns & McDonnell said on Monday that it was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for three 10-MW/20-MWh lithium-ion, stand-alone battery energy storage systems. The three facilities are located in the West Texas region.

Construction 97

Construction Cooling Batteries Power grid 97

Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Plastics recycling, especially for mixed and contaminated plastics, remains a major pollution concern. At the same time but seemingly unrelatedly, we need more plentiful and sustainable sources of graphene (useful for everything from solar cells to battery storage) and graphite (a key component of lithium-ion batteries).

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Recycling Recycling Hydrogen Carbon-neutral 104

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

These changes could allow the bank to lend money towards not only supporting some of the world's least developed countries, but increasingly also to highly-polluting middle-income locations, using climate vulnerability as a key consideration in its borrowing criteria, according to the news site.

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Packaging Hydrogen Lithium Climate change 36

GreenTechMedia

MAY 6, 2020

The investors had to get comfortable with the startup's public benefit commitments , which cap executive compensation relative to the lowest paid employee, and pledge at least 80 percent of profits to solar projects or community investment.

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Startups Investment Electricity Lithium 246

The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Brausch for The Verge Homeowners who want to reduce their carbon footprint by getting rid of polluting appliances have the US government’s full support. The pollution from using a gas heater was also a major concern. Money is key because electrification isn’t cheap Investing in the right technologies can help, too.

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Fossil fuels Law Electricity Pollution 113

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

million – To develop, design and construct two stand-alone energy storage systems and perform field demonstrations of a six-hour zinc hybrid cathode energy storage system in New York City to help demonstrate that zinc hybrid technology is economically competitive with lithium-ion. JC Solutions, LLC dba RCAM Technologies – $1.2

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Hydrogen Energy Energy Lithium 52

The Verge: Energy

MARCH 27, 2024

. | Photo by Meiramgul Kussainova/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A new study finds that Bitcoin mining paired with green hydrogen could help speed up a transition to clean energy — an eyebrow-raising claim, considering strong evidence that the cryptocurrency is a big polluter. It all depends on who uses [Bitcoin] — just the same as a knife.”

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Energy Energy Hydrogen Blockchain 94

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

Without all three, it is hard to make a strong investment business case. In addition, a lot of these complex chemicals will be classified as persistent organic pollutants. Lithium-ion batteries are used to power a vast range of electrical equipment from electric vehicles to electric toothbrushes.

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Technology Waste Waste Lithium 162

Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The £65m has been earmarked for the world's first large scale Industry Transition Programme, which is being led by the World Bank's Climate Investment Funds and aims to support emissions reduction projects from energy-intensive industries in developing economies such as India and Indonesia.

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Energy Energy Innovation Government 69

Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

The net zero transition depends on copious amounts of graphite, lithium, cobalt, and other materials that provide the building blocks for energy efficient buildings, electricity transmission infrastructure, solar panels, electric vehicles, energy storage, wind turbines, and myriad other technologies.

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Europe Lithium Sustainability Demand 73

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 16, 2020

New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing rising levels of offshore wind and other renewable power in the years to come.

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Batteries Ozone Nuclear Power Hydropower 130

Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China has also contributed to price declines in wind turbines and lithium-ion batteries. This electrification effort is being driven by the nation's war on pollution. China is also an unparalleled world leader in electric buses. The Chinese city of Shenzhen alone electrified 16,000 buses.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Climate change 94

Business Green

MARCH 30, 2021

As well as addressing climate change and air pollution, this funding will boost the bus manufacturing sector and give more passengers the best modern buses.". We have set an ambitious target to phase out the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030," said Minister for Investment Gerry Grimstone. "To

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

They include the rare earth elements and other metals such as lithium, indium, tellurium, gallium, and platinum group elements. We're using one of the most polluting forms of transport, ships, to import valuable and critical metals and export huge volumes of e-waste to countries as far afield as Japan. This has to stop.

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Waste Waste Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 98

Low Impact

AUGUST 29, 2021

But solar panels and electric car batteries need lithium , cobalt, nickel and other scarce raw materials. 3) It’s funding big polluters. The European Investment Bank is tipped to drive the financing of the Green Deal. Neither do the EU’s ‘cohesion’ and ‘just transition’ funds exclude fossil fuel investments.

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Fossil fuels Hydrogen Law Europe 96

Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

Firstly, most of that EV adoption worldwide is expected to take place in industrialised and emerging economies, meaning the rest of the developing world is currently expected to remain reliant on polluting vehicles through to 2040 and beyond. Investments and public policy should therefore reflect that - and urgently.

Transportation 51

Transportation Electric vehicle Electricity Demand 51

Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

Such conclusions add to a growing library of studies which argue significantly more policy momentum is required to bolster the investment case for renewables in order to ensure the roll-out of requisite clean energy to meet global climate goals.

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Government Energy Energy Fossil fuels 40

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

The global economy could face many more years of energy market turbulence if governments do not take steps to turbocharge their clean energy and technology investments, the IEA has warned. Today, it is natural gas; tomorrow, it could be something else, such as lithium," he reflected.

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Natural gas Energy Energy Fossil fuels 78

Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 23, 2021

Third, investment and support for these well-positioned industries. In addition to pricing pollution, it invests in making industrial facilities cleaner while spurring the use of low-carbon fuels. And Albertan companies like E3 Metals and Summit Nanotech are finding ways to recover lithium from oilsands wastewater.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Fossil fuels Demand 52

Clean Energy Trust

JANUARY 28, 2022

Middling government action Also, one crosscutting theme that is hard to avoid is the significant increase in new climate tech investment funds. Credit: The Economist One other trend that is sure to be clear to folks following the space is the incredible surge in climate tech investment over the year (really over the last couple of years).

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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Electric vehicle Aviation 52

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Rio Tinto says it will invest $98 million in a 34-megawatt PV array and 12-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery system to help power its Koodaideri mine in Pilbara, Western Australia. Both Rio Tinto and Glencore are expected to unveil new targets this year.

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Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels Carbon South America 130

Green Market Oracle

JUNE 3, 2020

Despite ideological resistance from some quarters, government investment in electrification makes sense from a climate, economic and jobs perspective. Sarah urged people send an email to their elected officials telling them to cut pollution, create jobs and build resiliency.

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Fossil fuels Transportation Hydrogen Government 105

Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

E-waste, which includes lithium-ion batteries prone to internal combustion under pressure, is a known cause of fire at household waste collection and recycling centres and harmful substances leaking from e-waste can cause soil and water pollution. Improperly recycled WEEE waste poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health.

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Packaging Waste Waste Electricity 67

EDF + Business

MAY 2, 2023

Key Takeaways Covers a variety of investments (incl. Incentive Type: Allocated investment credit. Battery Joint Venture In January 2023, Ford Motor Company announced an investment of $3.5 billion to build a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) EV battery plant in Marshall, Michigan. announced plans to invest up to $1.2

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 52

Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Our challenge, now, is to catalyse the urgent action needed to accelerate the world's progress toward that reality by testing and investing in solutions at-scale with transformative potential. In the past two years, confidence has grown that existing decarbonisation solutions can cost-effectively enable a net zero global economy by 2050.

Hydrogen 70

Hydrogen Demand Natural gas Africa 70

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

The government of India has recently set aside $544 million to stoke private sector investments and technological research in this industry. Other critics see the mining as a ponzi scheme of sorts that is meant to draw venture capital investment but in fact has little real chance to make money in the long term.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Biodiversity Energy Monitor 88

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

A few reasons: Battery materials are very valuable, and a lot of money is invested into pulling those metals out of the ground. Speakers across the three days emphasized the crucial nature of developing products and systems that reduce or even eliminate waste, leading to more profits and less pollution for the planet.

Electric vehicle 28

Electric vehicle Batteries Electricity Recycling 28

Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

Covid-19 could turbocharge the construction sector's adoption of electrified equipment in order to cut carbon and pollution, according to industry-backed report. The construction industry has a vital role to play in rebuilding the UK's economy, creating new skilled jobs while tackling environmental issues such as air pollution," he said.

Construction 71

Construction Electricity Real Estate Innovation 71